Category: Health and Medicine

The study also found that marijuana users seemed to gain less weight over time than non-users.

“Over a three-year period, all participants showed a weight increase, but interestingly, those who used marijuana had less of an increase compared to those that never used,” said Alshaarawy. “Our study builds on mounting evidence that this opposite effect occurs.” Reports Forbes

Exactly. Weed has many great uses we’ve always found it make appalling television programs tolerable and allows you to gently nod off during them.

A Bit of swearing helps too ! “On the way to the coffee shop there was this enormous bus stop, with a big, big portrait of Tom Brady, looking moodily down the street in his Ugg boots,” Brokaw recalled. “And I would walk by him, look at him and drop the ‘F word’ on him, just because it would give me a kind of a lift to keep on going.”

We’ve lost count how many times this story has been run this week. Here’s the Economist version of it hoping that it will be slightly more balanced than the rest and the actual report which, really, is the only thing you should be reading and then making your own mind up.

Here are their 5 reasons. Call us old fashioned but we like to chuff up an old fashioned spliff

The 70-year-old man decided to try edible marijuana to see if it would reduce the pain from his osteoarthritis and help him sleep. The man had smoked some marijuana in his youth, but had never tried an edible product, according to the report, which was published today (Feb. 11) in the Canadian Journal of Cardiology.

The result came as a big surprise to scientists measuring the sperm counts of more than 600 men from couples attending a fertility clinic. They expected cannabis to have a detrimental effect on sperm count and fertility. Instead, those participants who admitted ever taking the drug turned out to have higher sperm counts than non-users.

The trial will span 48 days and involve 150 patients from Vancouver, Abbotsford, Prince George, Victoria, Calgary, Winnipeg, Ottawa, Kingston, and Toronto. The trial seeks to prove whether cannabis helps cancer symptoms such as pain, sleep loss, anxiety and nausea.

Cutaneous T-cell lymphoma most often affects people aged 40 to 60 reports Growth Op

In his new book, “Tell Your Children,” Berenson argues the case, citing research from the National Academy of Medicine. On page 289 of the NAM’s 2017 report, “The Health Effects of Cannabis and Cannabinoids,” the nonprofit group concluded there is a risk. “Cannabis use is likely to increase the risk of developing schizophrenia and other psychoses; the higher the use, the greater the risk,” wrote the NAM, which advises the U.S. government on health issues.

It’s Sex Week at Merry Jane . They’re telling us that these are the products that work. We’ll take their word for it.

New evidence has emerged showing that parts of the cannabis plant, specifically cannabidiol (CBD), the non-intoxicating, trendy component, may actually worsen glaucoma symptoms. Researchers at Indiana University published a study in the latest journal Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science that shows CBD increases pressure in the eye. Writes Mike Adams for Forbes.